Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this comparison ignores one very basic fact: no military grant has ever been denied or pulled on the basis of a researcher's sexual orientation...
...research to discover biological markers that could be used to distinguish violence-prone children as early as age five. Any doubts about the potential for abuse in such a program were erased when Frederick Goodwin, then director of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, lapsed into a comparison of inner-city youth to murderous oversexed monkeys during a speech about the initiative. "Maybe," he said, "it isn't just the careless use of the word when people call certain areas of certain cities jungles " Amid the ensuing outcry, the National Institutes of Health canceled its financial support...
...Rosalinda's husband) in disguise, wielding a Hungarian accent and faintly pouting demeanor to entrap him. Upton provided a good counter-weight to deLima's antics, playing the impish and persecuted husband with an infallible good nature. Although Upton's voice suffered under the daunting orchestra and paled in comparison to his buoyant coplayers, his cutesy acting nonetheless compensated for want of volume...
...when clubs close, musicians move else-where. Bands like Human Feel, a popular and critically acclaimed progressive jazz outfit that used to work in Boston, have relocated to New York. "New York is such an epicenter of jazz," Associate Professor of Music Graeme Boone says. "There's really no comparison...
...comparison, the decision to close down the Linguistics department passed swiftly through the College's collective consciousness. The differing receptions afforded these two issues demonstrates on a small scale a rule that holds true for campus events generally. If a Harvard professor debates gay rights, though he do it at the bottom of a Tasmanian mine shaft, it will attract more attention than any reform affecting undergraduate education...